By Tang Jiamei

On 20 July, Nantong statistics bureau and national bureau of statistics Nantong investigation team published Nantong economic state of the first half of the year. The statistics shows that economy is steadily recovering to a normal status, there is obvious trend of improvement, and development quality has been improved.

According to unified accounting results of regional GDP, in the first half of 2021, the GDP of Nantong in the first half of 2021 is 548.317 billion Yuan, calculated at constant prices, there is an increase of 13.3%, the average growth of the past two years is 7.5%.

Foreign trade continues to increase and trade structure continues to be optimized. The total import and export of cargo of the city is 150.36 billion Yuan, there is an increase of 27%. Export value is 100.78 billion Yuan, there is an increase of 27.8%; the import value is 49.58 billion Yuan, there is an increase of 25.4%. The trade surplus is 51.2 billion Yuan. In the first half of the year, the export of mechanical and electrical products increased by 46.9%, which is 45.7% of the total export value, there is an increase of 6.1 in percentage point compared with same period of last year.